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...before Pyongyang and Washington were sniping at each other over the details. North Korea declared that the U.S. "should not even dream" that it would dismantle its nuclear programs before receiving a new plant. But for the first time since the U.S. accused North Korea of breaking a 1994 accord freezing its nuclear weapons program three years ago, there is some hope that the standoff on the Korean peninsula can be resolved. "We have an agreement," Hill told reporters later that day. "It wasn't easy, but I think important things don't come easily, and I think...
...World War II-era Gen Ed curriculum put Western thought on a pedestal. And the Core tried its best to make Western thought non-essential to graduation (even as most departments ensured their students would be firmly grounded in it). Going forward, the Committee on General Education must simply accord the West the same treatment it gives other subjects. Dont privilege it, but dont neglect it either by citing the importance of some amorphous global culture. With the HCCR mired in indecision, the oft-maligned Introduction to Western Civilization course may be about the most tangible and indispensable part...
...Protestant leaders say this week's riots are symptomatic of their community's deepening detachment from the peace process: A narrow majority of Protestants initially favored the 1998 Good Friday accord, but have since turned against it. That's mainly because in the 11-year struggle to get the IRA to turn a ceasefire into permanent peace, they believe the IRA?s gunmen have won too many concessions. Their most recent cause for anger was a British government decision to disband a mainly-Protestant militia. The upsurge of violence may also be a simple resistance to sharing power with nationalists...
...even exist in 1857, but was just a village boy furious that he couldn't be a good Hindu because of the animal fat on his cartridges. The iconoclasts might be onto something?the film's portrayal of Pandey as a progressive democrat committed to equality and religious accord is howlingly implausible, given the era in which he lived. Still, it's a harmless piece of idealization in a country that could do with more harmony...
...Europe's textile industry, backed by the French, Spanish and other governments, was screaming for protection from a surge in low-cost Chinese garments following the end of an international quota system last December. European retailers, increasingly dependent on China as the key source for clothing, never liked the accord. But their disquiet has turned to fury. Big chains including Britain's Next, Germany's Metro and Sweden's H&M complain about not receiving their fall and Christmas stocks. "Textile retailers are looking at empty shelves," warned the Foreign Trade Association, a Brussels-based group that represents E.U. retailers...